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Do you have what it takes to make money playing online poker?

Making money by playing poker online is not the easiest task in the world to be honest. On the other hand, if you are good at poker or are a fast learner, then you could very realistically make a decent bit of money by playing poker online.

If you are up for the challenge, then keep reading.

Below you’ll find the top poker sites to join. We are continually updating this list as the poker landscape changes. These are what we consider to be the best currently.

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These are the three best online poker rooms available around the world (not USA).

How To Make Money Playing Online Poker

You can learn how to make money playing poker online by doing a couple things right that most people are too lazy to do. By dedicating yourself to the game and honing your craft, you can seriously make a ton of money playing poker.

If I told you it was going to be easy, I'd be lying to you. On the other hand, it's a very realistic way to make money online. Thousands of people are making money by playing online poker and they aren't special. They just had the courage to try it and learn from their mistakes.

If you want to make money playing poker, then there are two things that will elevate your game above the rest.

Memorize Important Odds

This could save you a bundle and make you a fortune. Just knowing a few key odds really can make or break you. The best way to remember odds is to study them and take note of how they play out during real games. For learning odds, playing free online poker can be helpful. For most other things, free online poker isn't that helpful because people play recklessly.

You can use a handy little chart like the one on the right for studying odds. You are definitely going to want to get familiar with some of the most common and important odds, but don't go crazy trying to memorize everything.

As your skills become better, you will be able to calculate odds on the fly. You know there are 13 cards in each suit. If you have two cards of the same suit in your hand, and two more are laid down on the flop. You can subtract 4 from 13 and know that there are 9 cards out there that can give you a flush.

Depending on how many players you're playing with will affect your calculations. Basically, you need to determine how many cards are out there that can improve your hand. This is more or less an educated guess because you can't see your opponents' hands.

Just knowing how many cards can help your hand will tremendously improve your game. If you take it a step further and actually compare that figure with how many cards are out there to calculate the odds, you'll be playing like a pro. Most people hate math and won't calculate the odds. If you do, you'll be leagues above the rest.

Recognize Patterns

Every person you play with, especially amateurs, will follow some kind of pattern. Your job is to detect and capitalize on those patterns. The better the competition, the harder it will be to detect their patterns. It's human nature for us to follow patterns and have habitual behavior. It helps us survive.

Now in poker, patterns will destroy you or make you rich. It depends on which side of the pattern line you fall on. If your style of play becomes too pattern heavy, you're screwed. Don't be the person who goes all in every time they have a good hand, and folds on every other hand. It sounds extreme but some people actually play like that.

I've played with people like that and they never win. It's so obvious when they have a good hand that they never can get the pot big enough to really make some money. Sometimes they get wiped out fast because they're good hand isn't good enough. It's just not a good pattern to follow.

You'd be better off planning your pattern to make it look random.

But ideally, you want to be the one who detects patterns, not the one whose patterns are detected. Like most things, this will get easier the more you play, but you still need to actively work on it. Just set an intention to recognize player patterns. Don't overthink it. All you have to do is to be aware of your surroundings. Too often new players get tunnel vision and focus only on their hand.

Watch how other players bet and how it correlates to the hand they had. You will begin to notice patterns that will help you know the relative strength of your opponent's hand before everyone else.

Experience

As the saying goes, "Experience is the best teacher of all." This saying is doubly true for poker. When you are playing for real money, you'll learn your mistakes fast or have a short and expensive career.

This is why it's important to start playing for real money. Playing for free doesn't count for very much experience. It helps you become familiar with poker in general, but not the ebb and flow of the game.

Playing free poker gives you 1xp per game and playing poker for real money gives you 1,000xp per game. They're that different.

If you don't know how to play poker at all, it's a good idea to start of playing on a free app or website. I caution you to not get too wrapped up in those games. Don't look at them like they're the real deal.

You will encounter some interesting players on the free live sites. It might actually be better to play against a computer. They will have a more realistic style of play.

But as soon as you're ready, take your skills to the real online poker tables. You will learn fast. There are different types of poker games that are more suited for beginners.

I wouldn't recommend playing No Limit Texas Hold'em your first go round. Limit Texas Hold'em or Pot Limit Texas Hold'em will suit you better since the bets are restricted in size.

Most poker rooms also offer beginner tables and games. These will help protect you tremendously, but also with protection comes crippling.

While these beginner tables are great and highly recommended, know that you'll be playing with a bunch of beginners.

They will make plenty of mistakes just like you, so don't try to copy their styles. Wait until you take your skills to the veteran tables before trying to pickup skills from other players.

Once you're playing at the regular tables, you will learn really fast because your real money will be at stake and you'll be surrounded by decent competition.

If you really want to learn how to make money playing online poker, then you're going to have to get your butt out there on the tables with the big girls and boys.

Learning from experience is truly the best way to learn, but it makes it easier if you study up before hand.